Bucks County Audubon Society Gets $154K For Restoration Project

NEW HOPE, PA — A grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will support the Bucks County Audubon Society's restoration work at Honey Hollow Creek, according to a news release.

This year's Growing Greener grants were announced Thursday, with amounts totaling more than $3.5 million given out across southeastern Pennsylvania for watershed restoration and protection.

“Growing Greener is the single largest investment of state funds that goes directly towards addressing critical environmental concerns of the 21st century,” said the DEP's Southeast Regional Director Pat Patterson. “As we continue to see the impacts of climate change, it is imperative that we use funds to invest in, protect, and restore our watersheds.”

Growing Greener grants are awarded for projects in three categories: watershed restoration and protection; abandoned mine reclamation; and abandoned oil and gas well plugging projects. Statewide, this year’s awards exceed $18 million and will fund projects focused on design, construction, education, and outreach.

The Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow, which spans 110 acres with 6 miles of trails, meadows, forests, ponds, wetlands, and streams, was awarded $154,100.

The Audubon society will put these funds toward design and permitting for Honey Hollow Creek dam re-regulation, stream stabilization, and floodplain restoration.

Three other agencies also received funds to distribute for appropriate projects: the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to administer farmland preservation projects, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for state park renovations and improvements, and the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority for water and sewer system upgrades.

Approved projects across southeastern Pennsylvania include:

Bucks

• Langhorne Manor Borough: Comly Avenue Water Quality Improvements, $230,000
• Northampton Township: Northampton Crossing Basin Retrofit, $300,000

Chester

• Stroud Water Research Center, Inc.: Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) and Forested Buffers for Red Clay Creek 2022, $495,944
• Chester County Conservation District: Mushroom Farm Resource Conservationist, $199,680
• Tredyffrin Township: Tredyffrin Township Rain Garden Program, $12,740
• Tredyffrin Township: Bair Road/Trout Creek Infiltration, Water Quality and Flood Mitigation Project, $340,000
• Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art: Assessing and Improving Water Quality in the Brandywine-Christina Watershed, $269,298

Delaware

• Radnor Township: West Wayne Preserve Water Quality Improvements and Flood Reduction Project, $480,000
• Glenolden Borough: Improving Wildlife and Aquatic Habitat in Glenolden Community Park, $224,475
• Darby Township: Conway Park Streambank Restoration Water Quality Improvement Project, $216,300

Delaware and Philadelphia

• Pennsylvania Resources Council, Inc.: Growing Greener Communities, $244,475 Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: TreeVitalize Watersheds 16, $250,000

Learn more about the Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow.

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